The ability to bounce back after a setback is the single most important trait an entrepreneurial venture can possess.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!

Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it's the life blood of business.

If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough.

It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right.

You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy they have an access to truth not available through regular channels.

I am not sure precisely why we need to have privacy, but everyone knows for sure that we need to relax and not have to put on our social, outwardly looking face all of the time.

Our commercial bank [JPMorgan] is only in the U.S. We are serving what you call SMEs - small businesses, private companies.

Your questions are false if you already know the answer.

Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.

[John] Cassavetes, "Killing of a Chinese Booker", "Opening Night" are my favourites.

It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making stories. It's the strangest thing.

Rapture is the gateway to nirvana.

I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them.